“What if one could discover the rules we use in making art and then have a machine act out the rules?”
– Harold Cohen
MISSION
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COLLABORATORS
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RESOURCES
Find official statements, press releases and publications from the Harold Cohen Trust.
Latest Updates
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Statement on Posthumous Work
Harold liked to joke that he would be the “first artist to have a posthumous exhibit of new work.” He based this on the fact that his algorithmic art program, AARON, could continue to run after his death.
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Infinite Variety: Harold Cohen and Cybernetics in the 1960s
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On the occasion of a show of Cohen’s work at Gazelli Art House in London, we consider the pioneering British artist’s transition from paint to code.
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Harold Cohen: AARON
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Through paintings, works on paper and projections, this exhibition traces the evolution of AARON, the earliest artificial intelligence (AI) program for creating art, conceived by the pioneering British painter Harold Cohen.
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‘Harold Cohen: AARON’ Review: AI Art From the Past
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At the Whitney, a show featuring work made with a long-running artificial intelligence program shows that creativity and technology needn’t be enemies.
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Apollo’s Art Diary – Harold Cohen: AARON
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Is artificial intelligence really the enemy of original thinking? Harold Cohen (1928–2016) would not have said so.
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AARON’s Home
More information on Harold Cohen’s artworks and publications can be found at AARON’s Home.